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... reign of Henry VIII . from which see he was promoted to that of Bangor . He was a time - serving and unprincipled man , and qualified himself for this pro- motion by assenting to the law of the Six Articles ; -held it by conforming to ...
... reign of Henry VIII . from which see he was promoted to that of Bangor . He was a time - serving and unprincipled man , and qualified himself for this pro- motion by assenting to the law of the Six Articles ; -held it by conforming to ...
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... reign of more than forty years . His head was sent to the sultan of Egypt , the constant enemy of the race of Timour and their adherents ; but his death was afterwards fearfully avenged by his grand- son , the famous Uzun - Hassan , who ...
... reign of more than forty years . His head was sent to the sultan of Egypt , the constant enemy of the race of Timour and their adherents ; but his death was afterwards fearfully avenged by his grand- son , the famous Uzun - Hassan , who ...
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... reign of six years , on April 18 , A.D. 217. Not- withstanding his cruelties , Caracalla was , after his death , ranked amongst the gods of Rome by a decree of the senate , and at the suggestion of the very person who had led Martialis ...
... reign of six years , on April 18 , A.D. 217. Not- withstanding his cruelties , Caracalla was , after his death , ranked amongst the gods of Rome by a decree of the senate , and at the suggestion of the very person who had led Martialis ...
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... reign of Stephen , and died about the year 1156. He had for contemporaries , the historians William of Malmsbury , and Henry of Huntingdon . He has given in his Chronicle of Wales , an account of the petty British princes who bravely ...
... reign of Stephen , and died about the year 1156. He had for contemporaries , the historians William of Malmsbury , and Henry of Huntingdon . He has given in his Chronicle of Wales , an account of the petty British princes who bravely ...
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... reign of Mohammed II . when their terri- tories were finally absorbed into the Ottoman empire . CARAMUEL DE LOBKOVITSH , ( John , ) a Cistercian monk , born at Madrid , in 1606. He discovered in early life a strong inclination for the ...
... reign of Mohammed II . when their terri- tories were finally absorbed into the Ottoman empire . CARAMUEL DE LOBKOVITSH , ( John , ) a Cistercian monk , born at Madrid , in 1606. He discovered in early life a strong inclination for the ...
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Page 411 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it.
Page 384 - In 1670 the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the university of Oxford, at the same time with the prince of Orange, afterwards William III.
Page 92 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Page 367 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
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Page 286 - The Religion of Protestants a safe Way to Salvation ; or, an Answer to a Book* entitled ' Mercy and Truth ; or. Charity maintained by Catholics,' which pretends to prove the contrary.
Page 207 - He covers his defects with a daring, fiery spirit that animates his translation ; which is something like what one might imagine Homer himself to have writ before he arrived at years of discretion.
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Page 459 - An admonition to the people of England- Wherein are answered, not onley the slaunderous vntruethes, reprochfully vttered by MARTIN the Libeller, but also many other Crimes by some of his broode, objected generally against all Bishops, and the chief e of the Cleargie, purposely to deface and discredit the present state of the Church.
Page 457 - Sir (addressing himself to the Speaker), I, who rise only to give my opinion on the Bill now depending, am so confounded that I am unable to express the least of what I proposed to say, what must the condition of that man be, who, without any assistance, is pleading for his life, and under apprehension of being deprived of it...